I first met Larry Campbell years ago when his job was working with stiffs as he was the City Coroner. He then became mayor and because we were friends he would promote my photography work including one which was a gallery showing in the concourse of the main branch of the Vancouver Public Library. He left town and became a senator. He is now back with an important job in having to see if he can begin to solve the drug and homeless problem of the Downtown Eastside.

For some years now I tell people that I am obsolete, redundant, retired and inconsequential (soon to be a fine country and western song!).

Today I found out that is not quite the case. I contacted my friend former mayor, Sam Sullivan to see if he had Campbell’s contact email. He did!  I wrote and I received an instant reply. I told him that we should meet. He suggested tomorrow. I told him he could come to my house if he was not allergic to my two cats. He quickly replied with a photograph of his cat.

I will clean up my house in the morning and get my coffee beans out. I am in heaven!